Michael Raven
Price £24.00
The largest single collection of English country dance tunes ever published. Jigs, triple jigs, set dances, waltzes, reels, hornpipes, polkas, quicksteps, Schottisches etc., with special features on Morris. Sword and Ceremonial tunes, the Northumbrian pipes, and facsimile reproductions of the complete first editions of the Beggar’s Opera (1729) and The English Dancing Master (1651). Widely acclaimed by professional folk and early music musicians. 224 pages, 9 x 12 inches, sewn in sections, laminated cover. Second enlarged edition with some 1,300 tunes.
Michael Raven
Price £8.95
This book contains a selection of music from the repertoire of a popular folk band. There are 72 pages of songs and dance tunes, all of which are suitable for fiddle, flute, tin whistle, mandolin, bouzouki and guitar. The tunes are arranged in performance sets and many are printed complete with harmony lines and counter melodies. All have suggested harmonies indicated by chord symbols. The vocal music ranges from ancient ballads to industrial protest songs. The instrumental music includes jigs, reels, set dances, hornpipes, mazurkas, slides, polkas, airs and listening tunes, both traditional and newly composed. Recordings: some of the music has been recorded on The Reynardine Tapes CD.
Michael Raven
Price £8.25
A combined edition of two books: Ballads and Songs from Britain, and Aires and Dances of Wales. Includes songs recorded by June Tabor, Steeleye Span, and others, but also many little known traditional masterpieces and a handful of contemporary songs such as The Great Train Robbery and Hymn to Che Guevara. 68 pages, A4 size.
A. E . Housman – Michael Raven
Price £3.00
A selection of 18 of Housman’s poems set by Michael Raven to some very fine traditional tunes. Harmonies are suggested by chord symbols but most of these songs sound well unaccompanied. The first Edition is limited to 500 and the books are numbered and signed by Michael Raven. 16 pages, A4 size.
Michael Raven
Price £4.95
Rural, industrial and contemporary folksongs, some with guitar accompaniment, all with chord symbols; 41 titles including a few poems and riddles: Bold Robin Hood, Stafford Pageant Song, Tim Evans’ Dance, Darlaston Dogfight, My Last Farewell to Stirling, Wedgefield Wake, Queen of the Night, Midnight City, Mirror of My Mind, Over the Wall, Brave Collier Lads etc. 32 pages, A4 size. By using a condensed landscape format this book has almost twice the amount of material normally contained in a volume of this size and price. In short, it is a bargain! Recordings: There is not a Companion cassette but most of the songs have been recorded and details are given in the book.
Michael Raven
Price £4.95
A collection of 20 songs and dance tunes from the Netherlands and Belgium with English translations. Each song tune has also been arranged as a guitar solo. There are some excellent tunes here - Leonore (recorded by Michael Raven on A Miscellany of Guitar Music, is especially attractive), Snow White Bird, Pierlala and the Maying Song etc. The Belgian group, Rum, has also recorded some of these tunes. 32 pages, A4 size.
Edited by David Oxley and Michael Raven
Price £4.95
This book contains a collection of 30 mainly Irish and Scottish songs and dance tunes as played by a professional folk band. These are genuine off-the-record transcriptions of actual performances, largely notated by members of the group themselves. All the music printed here has been tried and tested over many years of playing. The result is a first-class collection of jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas and airs, arranged in performance sets and interspersed with songs and ballads. 32 pages, A4 size.
Michael Raven
Price £12.00
A collection of 32 traditional songs and dance tunes. Some are little known; some are from the repertoires of The Chieftains, Silly Wizard, Nic Jones, June Tabor and The Bothy Band etc. Titles include, John O’Barbary, Dingle Regatta, The Strayaway Child, Young Redin, The Wanton Seed, Jackie Tar, The Indian Lass, Nicholas Nye, Kiss Me in the Dark and Lord Thomas etc. The melody lines are in staff notation with chord symbols and there are some guitar accompaniments in tablature. This is the Second Edition, published in 2007 with a run of only 200. It has been reset and re-illustrated and is a beautiful book - every bit a collector's item. 32 pages, A4 size.
Michael Raven
Price £4.95
Sub-titled: ‘Songs of Industrial Protest and Social Discontent from the West Midlands’. Contains some excellent but little known songs from the Potteries. Titles include: Waiting for Wages, The Tommy Note, Charlie’s Song, The Nailmakers’ Strike, The Dudley Boys etc. 32 pages, A4 size. Companion CD: Many of the 23 songs have been recorded by Michael Raven and Joan Mills with Derby folk group Saga. See The Halliard : Jon Raven / Jolly Machine, CDMR77.
Michael Raven
Price £7.50
Transcriptions of all the songs, guitar accompaniments, guitar solos, poems and viola tunes on the Songs and Dances of Herefordshire CD which has contributions from Pat and Roy Palmer. Includes lovely versions of Lowlands of Holland, Dives and Lazarus, Milkmaid’s Song and Sheffield Park and some fine dance tunes such as Jack of the Green and Mr. Baskerville’s Volt. Music in staff notation only. 48 pages, 9 x 12 inches.
Michael Raven
Price £7.50
Many of the 200 songs printed here have been recorded by a variety of artistes, including Michael Raven and Joan Mills, The Black Country Three, Maddy Prior, Nic Jones, Johnny Collins, John Kirkpatrick and Jon Raven. They range from traditional ballads to contemporary pieces and include gritty industrial broadsides, pastoral love songs and settings of poems by English poets, such as Housman, Wordsworth, Hardy, Belloc, Tennyson, Blake and others. 256 pages, 9 x 5 inches, paperback.
Michael Raven
Price £3.50
ISBN 0906114233.The 82 titles include Dark Invader, Here be Dragons, Old Dog, I am a Rabbit, Robin Hood, Ross Workhouse, Why oh Wye?, Out of Work Assassin and Song of the Fox, etc. Published in 1997. Paperback 11cms x 17.5 cms, 64 pages.
Richard Tarlton, edited by M. Raven
Price £3.95
Richard Tarlton (d.1588) was a humble Shropshire farm labourer who became famous throughout England as Queen Elizabeth I’s Court Jester. He was also an actor, a musician and one of the country’s finest swordsmen - a Master of Fence. Tarlton’s Jests were published shortly after he died and were an instant best-seller, a phenomenon of the age. The modern reader will find much of the humour slight. Nevertheless, the jests are important as an adjunct to social studies of the time, especially of Shakespeare, who knew Tarlton well. This edition is a facsimile of the book published by the Shakespeare Society in 1844. The original 39 pages have been reproduced on 16 landscape A4 pages.
Jon Raven
Price £16.50
A beautifully produced hardback book, finely printed on quality paper. This work, an outstanding study in industrial folksong, was supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust and West Midlands Arts. 129 songs with text that describes their historical and social setting byJon Raven, indisputably the leading authority in this field. 258 pages, A5 clothbound hardback.
Jon Raven
Price £3.95
A unique collection of 72 songs of the old mines, mills, manufacturies, canals and railways with comprehensive notes, full texts and melody lines with chord symbols. These 18th and 19th Century songs of colliers, cutlers, nailmakers, potters, shipwrights and railmen etc, were mostly written at times of strike, strife or disaster and are as much a social statement as a collection of songs. Jon Raven is a leading authority on industrial folksong. He is the author of many books on the subject, and has been a consultant on numerous radio and television programmes. 192 pages, paperback size.
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